SolarWinds Contracts in the Midlands

SolarWinds
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SolarWinds over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SolarWinds.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 126 154
Rank change year-on-year +43 +28 +51
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 28 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.46% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 3.25% 0.59% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 7
10th Percentile £537 £520 £288
25th Percentile £550 £563 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £325
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +84.62% -23.53%
75th Percentile £651 £655 £363
90th Percentile £709 £659 £393
England median daily rate £540 £525 £463
% change year-on-year +2.86% +13.51% +1.37%

All Vendors
Midlands

SolarWinds falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 862 1,185 1,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.04% 42.98% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 750 1,154
10th Percentile £200 £212 £209
25th Percentile £326 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 78 58
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.92 £13.13
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -22.75% +18.82%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £37.69
90th Percentile £31.33 £47.42 £65.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the Midlands

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the Midlands

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the Midlands

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the Midlands

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 18 £551 - 4
East Midlands +13 10 £651 +8.42% 3
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) Firewall
2 5 (17.86%) DNS
2 5 (17.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 5 (17.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (17.86%) IPsec
2 5 (17.86%) OSPF
2 5 (17.86%) VLAN
3 4 (14.29%) HSRP
4 1 (3.57%) BGP
4 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
4 1 (3.57%) Internet
4 1 (3.57%) LAN
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.57%) SNMP
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Wireless
4 1 (3.57%) Wireless Security
4 1 (3.57%) Wireshark
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Law
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Architect
2 9 (32.14%) Network Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) CSOC
2 2 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (7.14%) SCADA
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (28.57%) VMS
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) SIEM
2 8 (28.57%) Event Correlation
3 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
3 5 (17.86%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (17.86%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (14.29%) Biometrics
4 4 (14.29%) Use Case
5 3 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (7.14%) Migration
6 2 (7.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 2 (7.14%) Network Architecture
6 2 (7.14%) Threat Modelling
7 1 (3.57%) Computer Science
7 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (3.57%) High Availability
7 1 (3.57%) ITIL
7 1 (3.57%) Network Management
7 1 (3.57%) Performance Analysis
7 1 (3.57%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (3.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 22 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) CCNP
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) MCSE
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) F5
2 15 (53.57%) Cisco
3 8 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 8 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 8 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 8 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 8 (28.57%) Splunk
4 6 (21.43%) Juniper
4 6 (21.43%) VMware
5 2 (7.14%) ArcSight
5 2 (7.14%) Foundry
6 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.57%) Siemens
6 1 (3.57%) Zscaler